Keywords
disorder-induced, plasmas, ultracold, temperature, density, scaling
Abstract
We report measurements and simulations of disorder-induced heating in ultracold neutral plasmas. Fluorescence from plasma ions is excited using a detuned probe laser beam while the plasma relaxes from its initially disordered nonequilibrium state. This method probes the wings of the ion velocity distribution. The simulations yield information on time-evolving plasma parameters that are difficult to measure directly and make it possible to connect the fluorescence signal to the rms velocity distribution. The disorder-induced heating signal can be used to estimate the electron and ion temperatures ~100 ns after the plasma is created. This is particularly interesting for plasmas in which the electron and ion temperatures are not known.
Original Publication Citation
S. D. Bergeson, A. Denning, M. Lyon, and F. Robicheaux. Density and temperature scaling of disorder-induced heating in ultracold plasmas. Phys. Rev. A 83 (2), 023409 (2011).
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Bergeson, Scott D.; Denning, A.; Lyon, M.; and Robicheaux, F., "Density and Temperature Scaling of Disorder-Induced Heating in Ultracold Plasmas" (2011). Faculty Publications. 1834.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1834
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2011
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3786
Publisher
American Physical Society
Language
English
College
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Copyright Status
© 2011 American Physical Society. This article is the Version of Record published by the American Physical Society in Physical Review A in 2011, available online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.023409
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